The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-12
NEWS OFTHE WEEK

The boiler of a distillery at Nor
gan's Station, Kentucky, exploded on
the 81, scaldlng seven men, four ia
tally. Andrew Grummon, 80 years of
age, was gored to death by a bull, at
the Lakeside Farm, near Syracuse,
New York, on the morning of the
4th.
AT East Cambridge, Massachu
sets, on the 9Th, Mrs. Sarah J. Robin
S n was arraIgned on indictments alleg-
ing that on June 20, 1885, she admins
tered poison to Prince Arthur Free
man and caused his death; that on the
first of August, 1881, she caused tie
death of Oliver Sleeper by poison; that
on July 11th, 1882, she caused the
death of her husband, Moses Robinson,
by administering poison, and that on
the first of July, 1886, she murdered
by poison Thomas Arthur Freeman.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty to all
the indictments and was held for trial.
In the same Court Anne Towns was
arraigned for poisoning her husband,
Edwart, with arsenic. She also
pleaded not guilty and was remandeG.
The dead bodies of Mrs Isabella Els
worth and John Neibert were found in
a small frame dwelling at West New
ton, Pa, on the morning of the 9th.
1t is supposed both committed suicide.
The bodies bore uistol-shot wounds.
"A snow plough on the Canadian
Pacific Railroad was buried in a
gorge by a snow slide iu Selkirk
Range. Manitoba, on the 81. Seven
men were sm0thered to death.
A large crowd of boys exploded a
flask of powder in the yard of a
church at PIttsOurg on the afternoon
of the 9Th. and ten of them were Sc
verely manned and burned in the face
and neck.
"A heavy snow storm prevailed on
the 9th and 9th in New England,
Northern New York and Canada. The
depth Of snow at Boston is six to eight
inches on a level; in Maine, Vermont,
New Hampshire and Northern New
York it i3 Is to "a inches. The snow
fall at Hanover, New Hampshire, this
winter has aggregated 8 feet s inches.
The aggregate of the a%ppropria-
lions made by the regular appropriation
bills passed by the Forty-ninth Con-
gress is about $3.50, 0O0, 900. This is
exclusive of the sums appropriated
by the River and Harbor and De-
iciency appropriation bills. which
failed of enactment. The %appropria-
lions for the current fiscal year ag1re-
gate S264, 900 600, which amount
would have been equalled by the APP
preparations voted by the last Congress
had the two bills mentioned become
laws.
The Reid levee, in Madison Par
ish. Louisiana, broke during the night
of the 4th. AT last accounts the crew
asse was three feet deep and fifty yards
wide.
The State Department is informed
that the cholera has been officially de-
clared epidemic at Montevideo.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was in
a dying condition at his home in
Brooklyn on the night of the 9th, from
the effects of an a~poplectic stroke which
Frustrated him on the 4th. The first
symptoms of his illness appeared on the
Sd, but the attack was not developed
until the next day, when all hore of his
recovery was given up. Mr.. Beecher
renamed in a eomatOse condition on
the 9th, and his physician said In the
evening that he might die at any NOM
ent or linger for several days.
"A telegram from Reading reports
an explosion of gas at the Sheridan fur
races on the 4th. which caused five
men to be terribly burned by molten
iron.
A snow plough on the Ontario and
Western Railroad, in New York,
tLmbled down a thirty-fo0t embank-
ment, near Trout Brook, Delaware
county, on the 9th. Two men were
severely injured, Part of the roof OF
the Norway Iron Works, in South
Boston, was crushed in on the morning
of the 9Th by snow. The damage Is
estimated at $4,000.
General Miles, at Los Angeles, on
the 7th received a telegram from Cap
tain Lawton saying that troops were
eRcamped near Nogales, Arizona, but
that he anticipated no trouble. The
Mexican authorities regret the outrage
committed by Lieutenant GuittereZ
and the four Mexican soldiers, and
have arrested all the offenders but one,
and turned them over to the American
civil authorities.
Robert Dlacker and his two-year-
old child were drowned while crossing a
swollen stream i'm a light wagon, near
Scipio, Indiana, on the morning of the
18th.
The dynamite factory at Bay
Chester, Long Island, blew up On the
Sth. One man was killed.
"A scsffold at the new Keystone
Market House, In Reading, Penna.,
fell on the morning of the Sth, and
threw fourteen men to the tround.
thirty feet below. All were injured,
six dangerously, and one, Albert Dor
bert. MORALLY.